In order to bring your dog to its fullest potential and deepen that bond between canine and human, proper training is vital. All dogs evolved from wolves and still have the instinct of following the Alpha dog. As a result of this, it is very important for the dog to view the owner as the Alpha dog, or else the dog will step up and become Alpha himself. If your dog doesn’t view you as the Alpha dog, it will be very difficult training him to follow your orders. You have to bond with your dog at an early age, and be both firm and rewarding for him to respect you. Follow these points to find out how to teach your dog to stay.

1. Put your dog on a leash and command it to sit (facing you). The leash should average in length; long enough to allow the dog to move around a little bit, but short enough for you to keep your dog’s attention on you so you can maintain being the Alpha dog.
2. Keep facing your dog and step backwards as you say the command “stay”. Remember, your dog will most likely not learn it within a few times; repetition and consistency is key. It’s completely up to you which hand signal you want to use as long as you use it every time you say the command “stay.”
3. After you step back, your pooch will either stay there sitting and watching you or follow you with curiosity. If he stays, let him know that’s what you wanted him to do by giving him a treat and praise. It is so important to reward your dog after he did what you wanted, but remember to be consistent in your training methods. If your bond is tight, your dog will want to please you, so long as he knows that you are pleased with him. Most likely, your dog will go after you, closing the gap between the two of you. If this happens (which it probably will while your pooch is still learning), simply tell him to sit and try it again. Don’t be upset if it takes a few times until he gets it; never hit your dog or yell at him during the training process.
4. After your dog learns how to stay when you step back, try increasing the distance a bit. Be sure to reward your pooch when he stays put. If he needs more time to get it, just try it again. Again don’t be discouraged; practice makes perfect. One thing you should know when it comes to training your dog is that too much training at once will make your dog less and less focused and therefore can be rather counter-productive. Dogs have very short attention spans and you have to work with that, not against it. If you take breaks regularly, your dog will be much more inclined to train with you because he knows he’ll get treats if he does good and free time afterwards. You can try again with the stay command in a couple hours.

Dogs learn best through consistency, so be patient and keep trying! Good luck with your training!

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If you are not satisfied with your current dog’s behavior, then you should consider the option to train your dog. If you have not idea on how to train your dog, or where to start, my advice to you would be getting Sit Stay Fetch – a dog training e-book as for your first step. It is understandable that sometime you tend to lose your nerve toward your dogs because of their bad behaviors like chewing on your shoes, simply take a dump on your sofa when you are not looking or random barking for no apparent reason just to annoy you. It is very unpleasant tale that you would not want to share with your neighbors or friends.

It is not surprising if you have once thought to hire a dog trainer to train and educate your dogs. But you should aware of the fees to hire a dog trainer. Depends on how reputable is the dog trainer that you going to hire and how long time that the dog trainers need, the feed can easily skyrocketing up to hundreds or thousands of dollars. Unless you are rich, it is just a fleeting dream for an average dog owner to hire a dog trainer to train their dogs. But even so, is it really worth to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars just to train your dogs? Perhaps the option only worth to be considering if you have more than 3 dogs or more in your home…But still…

Back to the Sit Stay Fetch. What and Why Sit Stay Fetch? Well, Sit Stay Fetch is a comprehensive e-book that focuses training dogs. The reason why that I suggested you to get Sit Stay Fetch is to learn how to train your dogs by yourself. I am no kidding as I believe that everyone can train their own dogs if they have sufficient and appropriate knowledge. I mean, even that professional dog trainer starts from somewhere else. Yes, knowledge is power. Resort beating and tying your dogs when you want to punish it is not longer work and not effective. It is past tense and outdated method. Treat your dog like one of your family…not a stranger or insect.

If you give a peek into the Sit Stay Fetch – dog training guide, you will be bombard with 260 pages of the information and knowledge on how to train your dogs, how to understand your dogs, how to take care of the bad behaviors, what is your dogs problem, what is your dog want, and how to breed your dog and more. Anything you want to know about the dogs, you can find it inside. You learn a lot of various effective training methods to train your dogs, heck some of the method is a something that you never seen it coming or just too ridiculous in your opinion…but in the end, it works.

Do you even know what make this e-book amazing? In order to ensure that you going to learn everything and clear your confusion, it comes with high definition videos, colorful photo illustrations, audio and even software to aid your learning process. Having the videos showing you how the certain techniques or tricks to be used on your dogs are just simply unbeatable and effective. If you are not really good to figure out thing by yourself, you can just follow what the videos show. I think that the author of this dog training guide, Daniel Stevens somewhat overdid it. With all the preparations and packages that offered by him is to ensure his reader to understand everything. He still thinks that it is not enough to help his reader. So, he is offering a free email consultant and customer service where you can contact him through email and have him to help you to solve your specific dog problems.

So as you can see, if you are really want to train or solve your dog’s behaviors, you should consider getting Sit Stay Fetch and read through it and do it by yourself. Not to mention if you are do it yourself to train your dogs, it will strengthen your bond between your dog, which it is a good thing.

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